A new £1 million initiative from the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
and leading architecture company RMJM, aims to transform some of
Britain’s most deprived inner city areas “from the inside out” by
encouraging more young people from Black and ethnic minorities to
become architects and to send the most promising to the design school
at Harvard in Boston, one of the best regarded in the world.
The ‘Architecture for Everyone’ campaign will uncover and support new
architectural talent by delivering workshops in inner city Britain that
will help to engage and inspire young people around new ways of
channelling creativity. For example, it is hoped that young people who
pride themselves on their street art will be inspired by understanding
how they can have a wider impact on their urban space by re-directing
their artistic leanings to architecture and design. The workshops will
enable young people to meet senior architects who are responsible for
designing some of the world’s most high profile buildings and to
develop real links and progression routes into the industry.
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RMJM
RMJM is a UK-based, international firm of architects, employing 1200
people across its network of 15 offices in the UK, Europe, the Middle
East, the Far East and the United States. RMJM’s expertise and
design-led approach is successfully demonstrated in on-going projects
in more than 15 countries spanning a wide range of key sectors, from
corporate headquarters and waterfront residential developments to major
public buildings, university campuses and large-scale regeneration
programmes. The company currently has £10 billion worth of construction
projects on its drawing boards, including some of the world’s most high
profile and ambitious projects, including the tallest building in
Europe for Gazprom in St Petersburg and the biggest ever media centre
at the Beijing Olympic Games.
